Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)

Percentage Accurate: 73.3% → 98.9%

Time: 7.9s

Alternatives: 10

Speedup: 5.7×

• 61.4% of points produce a very large (infinite) output. You may want to add a precondition.

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (-
  (+
   (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0)
   (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a))))))
  1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (((a * a) * (1.0d0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0d0 - (3.0d0 * a)))))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 + a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(1.0 - Float64(3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 73.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (-
  (+
   (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0)
   (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a))))))
  1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (((a * a) * (1.0d0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0d0 - (3.0d0 * a)))))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 + a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(1.0 - Float64(3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 98.9% accurate, 1.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1 \cdot 10^{+107}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot 4 + {\left(b \cdot b + a \cdot a\right)}^{2}\right) - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -1e+107)
   (fma (* (* a a) a) a -1.0)
   (- (+ (* (* (fma a a a) a) 4.0) (pow (+ (* b b) (* a a)) 2.0)) 1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1e+107) {
		tmp = fma(((a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (((fma(a, a, a) * a) * 4.0) + pow(((b * b) + (a * a)), 2.0)) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1e+107)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(fma(a, a, a) * a) * 4.0) + (Float64(Float64(b * b) + Float64(a * a)) ^ 2.0)) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -1e+107], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a + a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] + N[Power[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -9.9999999999999997e106

   1. Initial program 0.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 0.0

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 0.0%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2} \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if -9.9999999999999997e106 < a

   1. Initial program 86.3%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 99.3

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 99.3%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1 \cdot 10^{+107}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot 4 + {\left(b \cdot b + a \cdot a\right)}^{2}\right) - 1\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 98.1% accurate, 3.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-30}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 5e-30)
   (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (* b b) 4.0 (- (* (* (fma (* a a) 2.0 (* b b)) b) b) 1.0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 5e-30) {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), 4.0, (((fma((a * a), 2.0, (b * b)) * b) * b) - 1.0));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 5e-30)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), 4.0, Float64(Float64(Float64(fma(Float64(a * a), 2.0, Float64(b * b)) * b) * b) - 1.0));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 5e-30], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0 + N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * 2.0 + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 4.99999999999999972e-30

   1. Initial program 88.1%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 88.1

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 88.1%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   if 4.99999999999999972e-30 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.4%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {b}^{4}\right)} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\left(\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot {a}^{2}\right) \cdot {b}^{2}} + {b}^{4}\right) + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\left(\left(2 \cdot {a}^{2}\right) \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      3. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\left(\left(2 \cdot {a}^{2}\right) \cdot {b}^{2} + \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}}\right) + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      4. distribute-rgt-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right)} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      5. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right) + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right)\right)} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot b} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot b} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      9. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right) \cdot b\right)} \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      10. lower-*.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + {b}^{2}\right) \cdot b\right)} \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      11. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(\left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot 2} + {b}^{2}\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2}, 2, {b}^{2}\right)} \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      13. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot a}, 2, {b}^{2}\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      14. lower-*.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot a}, 2, {b}^{2}\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      15. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      16. lower-*.f64 60.3

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 60.3%

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{{b}^{2}}\right) - 1 \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      2. lower-*.f64 98.5

         \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   8. Applied rewrites 98.5%

      \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lift--.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1} \]

      2. lift-+.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)} - 1 \]

      3. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right)} - 1 \]

      4. associate--l+ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1\right)} \]

      5. lift-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)} + \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot 4} + \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1\right) \]

   10. Applied rewrites 98.5%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, b \cdot b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 94.5% accurate, 5.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (* b b) (fma b b 4.0) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), fma(b, b, 4.0), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), fma(b, b, 4.0), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 88.2

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 88.2%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 82.4

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 82.4%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto {b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right) + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right)} \]

      8. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      9. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      10. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b \cdot b} + 4, -1\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 92.5

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)}, -1\right) \]

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 93.9% accurate, 5.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(\left(4 + a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (* (+ 4.0 a) a) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (* b b) (fma b b 4.0) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma((((4.0 + a) * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), fma(b, b, 4.0), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(Float64(4.0 + a) * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), fma(b, b, 4.0), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 88.2

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 88.2%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + 4 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 99.2%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(\left(4 + a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 82.4

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 82.4%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto {b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right) + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right)} \]

      8. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      9. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      10. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b \cdot b} + 4, -1\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 92.5

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)}, -1\right) \]

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 93.7% accurate, 5.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (* a a) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (* b b) (fma b b 4.0) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma(((a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), fma(b, b, 4.0), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), fma(b, b, 4.0), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 88.2

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 88.2%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2} \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 98.9%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 82.4

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 82.4%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto {b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right) + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right)} \]

      8. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      9. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      10. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b \cdot b} + 4, -1\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 92.5

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)}, -1\right) \]

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 93.7% accurate, 5.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 9 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 9e+27) (fma (* (* a a) a) a -1.0) (* (* b b) (* b b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 9e+27) {
		tmp = fma(((a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (b * b) * (b * b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 9e+27)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(b * b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 9e+27], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 8.9999999999999998e27

   1. Initial program 87.4%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 87.1

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 87.1%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2} \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 96.1%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 8.9999999999999998e27 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 59.1%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 83.3

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 83.3%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-pow.f64 95.3

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 95.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 95.2%

       \[\leadsto \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 67.6% accurate, 7.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 21500:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 21500.0) (fma (* 4.0 a) a -1.0) (* (* b b) (* b b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 21500.0) {
		tmp = fma((4.0 * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (b * b) * (b * b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 21500.0)
		tmp = fma(Float64(4.0 * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(b * b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, 21500.0], N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 21500

   1. Initial program 78.5%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 87.0

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 87.0%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 78.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 59.9%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 21500 < b

   1. Initial program 59.9%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 79.7

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 79.7%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-pow.f64 95.0

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 95.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 94.9%

       \[\leadsto \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 8: 61.1% accurate, 8.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.35 \cdot 10^{+145}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 1.35e+145) (fma (* 4.0 a) a -1.0) (fma (* b b) 4.0 -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1.35e+145) {
		tmp = fma((4.0 * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), 4.0, -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 1.35e+145)
		tmp = fma(Float64(4.0 * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), 4.0, -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, 1.35e+145], N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0 + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.35000000000000011e145

   1. Initial program 77.6%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 85.0

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 85.0%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*l* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      7. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      8. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      13. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      14. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      15. associate-*r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 73.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 56.1%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 1.35000000000000011e145 < b

   1. Initial program 50.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

      2. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      3. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      5. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-lft-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      7. *-rgt-identity N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

      8. lower-fma.f64 87.5

         \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 87.5%

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. sub-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      3. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      4. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

      6. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto {b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right) + \color{blue}{-1} \]

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right)} \]

      8. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      9. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

      10. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b \cdot b} + 4, -1\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 100.0

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)}, -1\right) \]

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, -1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 9: 51.2% accurate, 13.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, -1\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (fma (* b b) 4.0 -1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return fma((b * b), 4.0, -1.0);
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return fma(Float64(b * b), 4.0, -1.0)
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0 + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 74.1%

   \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow2 N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

   2. associate-*r* N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   3. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   4. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   5. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   6. distribute-lft-in N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   7. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   8. lower-fma.f64 85.3

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

5. Applied rewrites 85.3%

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

   1. sub-neg N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

   2. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   3. metadata-eval N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   4. pow-sqr N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   6. metadata-eval N/A

      \[\leadsto {b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + 4\right) + \color{blue}{-1} \]

   7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right)} \]

   8. unpow2 N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

   9. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b}, {b}^{2} + 4, -1\right) \]

   10. unpow2 N/A

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b \cdot b} + 4, -1\right) \]

   11. lower-fma.f64 72.5

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)}, -1\right) \]

8. Applied rewrites 72.5%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), -1\right)} \]

9. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, -1\right) \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 54.3%

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, -1\right) \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 10: 24.8% accurate, 160.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ -1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 -1.0)

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return -1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = -1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return -1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return -1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return -1.0
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = -1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := -1.0

Derivation

1. Initial program 74.1%

   \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow2 N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

   2. associate-*r* N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   3. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   4. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

   5. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   6. distribute-lft-in N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + a \cdot 1\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   7. *-rgt-identity N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a + \color{blue}{a}\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

   8. lower-fma.f64 85.3

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]

5. Applied rewrites 85.3%

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, a\right) \cdot a\right)}\right) - 1 \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) - 1} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

   1. sub-neg N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)} \]

   2. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   3. associate-*l* N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(1 + a\right) \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   4. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + 1\right)} \cdot 4\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot 4\right)} + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   6. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   7. metadata-eval N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   8. pow-sqr N/A

      \[\leadsto \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   9. distribute-lft-in N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} \cdot \left(\left(4 + 4 \cdot a\right) + {a}^{2}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   10. associate-+r+ N/A

       \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + {a}^{2}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   11. unpow2 N/A

       \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \left(4 \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

       \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot \left(4 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   13. *-commutative N/A

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot {a}^{2}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   14. unpow2 N/A

       \[\leadsto \left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   15. associate-*r* N/A

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right) \]

   16. metadata-eval N/A

       \[\leadsto \left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a + \color{blue}{-1} \]

   17. lower-fma.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a \cdot \left(4 + a\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

8. Applied rewrites 69.6%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)} \]

9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto -1 \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 26.6%

    \[\leadsto -1 \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024276 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)"
  :precision binary64
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a)))))) 1.0))